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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Sep 17, 2025
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.
It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.
The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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